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When Investors Want to Know How You Treat People

Harvard Business Review

It augers great benefits to leaders that have a strong human capital story to tell with numbers, and poses dilemmas for those not prepared to measure their human capital and organizational capability more precisely. Some of the most important insights will come from human capital reporting.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Financial capital is assumed to be virtually unlimited, while certain types of human capital are in short supply. This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Agapol Na Songkhla – Chief People Officer and Executive Vice President of Human Capital Group at Thai Beverage (ThaiBev). Deborah Borg – Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer, Bunge Limited. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Sean McGrath – Human Resources Vice-President World Bank Group.

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The Business School Tuition Bubble

Harvard Business Review

And Mark Perry , a professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan, puts it in perspective with a handy chart.). Another said we provide a lottery for a small number of plum jobs in consulting and finance. The doom-and-gloom scenarios always struck me as overly pessimistic. Others mentioned signaling value.

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How Digital Leaders Get the Right Work Done - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM WORKFRONT

Harvard Business Review

If you or I were the CFO of a manufacturing company, and we were in a board meeting, and the board asked, “What is your manufacture and capacity utilization?” And that basically only 40 percent of human capital in modern work is doing their real job. Think about that, Angelia.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

Employees and other constituents should expect HR to hold leaders accountable for fiduciary and strategic risks, just as a CFO would be expected to hold leaders accountable for a risky pattern of using corporate funds or resources. A recent Recode article provides an interesting perspective on the evolution of HR at Uber.